DJ Lessonon How to Make the Crowd Go Bonkers in the Breaks

0:01 This is a beginner, intermediate and advanced DJ lesson

Alright ladies and gentlemen, this is a beginner, intermediate and advanced DJ lesson. It's all in one. How can we get an effect without using an effect? That is possibly the biggest question of all. How can we make the dance floor go mad without giving them an effect? How can we play a track, not change it, but change it at the same time without the crowd knowing? How can we change it so much that they don't even know there is a change yet? The change you give them is enough to get them even more euphoric than they expected to get in the first place. Are you confused? I'll show you. Right. The track I'm using, if I just skip back there and go back there, LP Project, a track entitled Stay With Me. First of all, have a listen. Now we're coming to a break. This is the key. The break, listen.

3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4.

1:31 On the CDJs, we can set the pitch to tempo reset

Okay, so I'm going to cue that. This is what I'm going to do. Now, on the CDJs, we can set the pitch to tempo reset. What that means is wherever the pitch is, whether it's a lot slower or a lot faster, if we have tempo reset, no matter where you put the pitch, it will be at the original speed of the track. That's sort of what I want, but also not what I want. What I'm going to do is I've set the tempo select. I'm going to increase the speed by about 9%-ish. So let's have a listen to the track from this, or at this speed, this tempo. It sounds a lot faster. To this, there's a definite change in the speed. Listen. You can physically hear it's faster. But, it's a lot more difficult to hear that it's faster.

It's faster in a break. Using this technique, what you can do, you can actually increase the euphoria, increase the vibe, the energy of the people out there by just increasing the tempo, increasing the speed during the breaks. As soon as the break finishes and it comes back into the track, into the beat, then you press tempo reset, and it will zip straight back. To the correct speed. Now, of course, that's depending on if you've got this pitch down here, here or wherever, but it doesn't really matter even if the pitch is there. What will happen is as soon as you increase the speed up, it gets faster. Press tempo select or tempo reset and it's back to the original speed. Not that it was while you were doing the mix.

4:00 Tempo reset, snap straight, means

It's back to the speed of the track that it was when it was made. All right. So why do we want that? Why do we want to do this? Well, let's do two demonstrations. Let's first of all play. Listen, you can hear that there, just doing another hot cue there. So that's where I'm going to start the increase of speed and C is where the track comes in. And this is C is the point where we will hit the tempo reset. Now, the reason I want to do tempo reset is because if you move the pitch down like that, yeah, okay, it's gonna slow down. But it's a little bit more precise if you hit the tempo reset, because it means it's straight back at the original speed of the track when it was made. And like I said earlier, if you were say a lot slower, then you've got the opportunity then slowing it down slowly or speeding up a little bit slowly as well.

Alternatively, you could just, if you do tempo reset, yeah, I hope you're following this, then it just means that you pretty much. Well, you're at the correct speed, aren't you? Hell, I don't know, waffle. Okay, so let's go from A, have a listen and this time I'm going to increase the speed. Oh my God, he's not gonna finally do it, is he? Oh, sorry, okay. Okay, so this now is at normal speed. If I now press tempo reset, I can now speed it up. All right. Of course, we can't hear it because it's on tempo reset. What I didn't say earlier on is there. Now it's faster. Snap it straight in, snap it straight out. There. See? I don't know about you, but I actually like that. It just gives it a bit more vibe, bit more energy.

You don't have to increase it as much, but it does give the break a lot more energy and also it means the breaks are that little bit shorter. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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